Table games that use plaques
I've seen pictures of plaques that are used for higher denominations in high roller rooms, particularly for Baccarat. How are those stored? I haven't seen any chip tray that's designed to hold plaques. What do they look like? Are there any pictures floating around out there?
On a similar note, some high-denomination chips are oversized. Do they still fit in a regular chip tray, or does a custom chip tray have to be made for those?
The curious can't get near them. For good reasons.
On the continent I once saw a neat idea, there was another tray hidden underneath the normal dealer's tray - it contained more chips and I think some larger denomination plaques. I don't play French Roulette much, but they usually have round jetons and you sometimes see a few plaques for larger values.
Quote: charliepatrickAt our local casino, where £100 chips were rare (they're common now), I recall a large roller coming in and they had £1000 plaques. At one time the £100 round chips were larger, but now they're the same size.
On the continent I once saw a neat idea, there was another tray hidden underneath the normal dealer's tray - it contained more chips and I think some larger denomination plaques. I don't play French Roulette much, but they usually have round jetons and you sometimes see a few plaques for larger values.
At a lot of casinos they use bigger chips in the high limit baccarat rooms. They aren't necessarily higher denomination. Eg, at MGM, they use large black chips in the baccarat room and normal-sized black chips on the floor.
Biscuits they are sometimes called, usually the trays have a flat porition in the VIP rooms between the rebate and normal chips and were they can lay them flat.Quote: DeucekiesRandom musing for today.
I've seen pictures of plaques that are used for higher denominations in high roller rooms, particularly for Baccarat. How are those stored? I haven't seen any chip tray that's designed to hold plaques. What do they look like? Are there any pictures floating around out there?
On a similar note, some high-denomination chips are oversized. Do they still fit in a regular chip tray, or does a custom chip tray have to be made for those?
Quote: Lemieux66I know at the Borgata they have some bigger chip racks for orange chips. I've sadly never held above an orange chip so maybe those too lol
The orange $1000 chips at Foxwoods were called "Pumpkins". I've had a few once upon a time. Never had a turtle $5K :(
Quote: 98ClubsNever had a turtle $5K :(
OK, I have to ask. I've heard of Pumpkins, Lemons, Chocolates, and maybe a few other nicknames, but what the heck kind of chip is a "turtle"?
Quote: BleedingChipsSlowlyPerhaps referring to the $3 Mohegan Sun chip which has a turtle on one side. I believe the turtle represents Father Time in the tribe's tradition. Out of circulation AFAIK.
The turtle represents the Earth, as the Earth was created on the back of a great turtle. Most all of the tribes of the northeast share this belief.
I suppose since the turtle is "the biggest" in lore, it is also the biggest in denomination.
The lore I'm sure of. The cheque is just a guess.
Quote: BleedingChipsSlowlyThanks, Face, for expanding/correcting the meaning of the turtle in Mohegan and other tribes' histories. Most people have no idea what the significance is of the turtle and wolf in the big mural at the entrance to the Earth casino.
No problem. It's one of the few topics I can speak of here with authority ;)
The wolf is also a common figure, usually representing strength, courage, and success of the hunt. Many tribes believe it to be a close relative of man, or the source of man, or the creator of man, and some even claim transitions between the two (shape shifting, skin walking).
"Mohegan" is the english representation of the word "mohiingan", which itself means "wolf". The Mohegan are the "People of the Wolf".
Off topic, but perhaps you can provide some insight into another tribal history point. The story of the woven basket is presented along the Winter entrance walkway. Any thoughts on whether or not the cider mentioned was hard cider? I have asked several employees who are designated tribal, but none had any idea.Quote: FaceNo problem. It's one of the few topics I can speak of here with authority ;)
Quote: BleedingChipsSlowlyOff topic, but perhaps you can provide some insight into another tribal history point. The story of the woven basket is presented along the Winter entrance walkway. Any thoughts on whether or not the cider mentioned was hard cider? I have asked several employees who are designated tribal, but none had any idea.
The Mohegan are not my tribe, so we're beginning to stray a bit out of my area of expertise. The only story I know about them that involves baskets are those which were filled with offerings to "The Little People", mythological characters of the woods who were either mischievous or helpful, depending on whether you gave them offerings or not.
I can say, and keep in mind that all Native history is word of mouth with no written records, that alcohol as we know it did not exist in northeast America. There were no breweries or distilleries, no grog or mash whiskey. Alcohol as we know it was an introduction by European settlers.
However, looking at it from a purely scientific standpoint, some of it had to be hard. Leave an apple to fall from the tree, let it rot, and then eat a dozen of them. See if you can walk back to your car in a straight line lol. I've seen videos of bears hammered so bad they couldn't stand, just from eating apples off the ground. Their cider would have turned hard on its own without any input. And with no purification or refrigeration available back then, it's a guarantee.
Whether it was made hard by design, though, is unknowable.
Yes, one need do nothing to raw cider for it to harden over time. The story is that one winter a man asked his neighbor for some cider. The neighbor gave him a woven basket and said he could have all the basket would hold. The man dipped the basket in a stream repeatedly until it was coated with ice, then filled the basked with cider. Asking for cider rather that food in winter? Hmmm... I was just wondering whether or not the story had been "sanitized."Quote: FaceHowever, looking at it from a purely scientific standpoint, some of [the cider] had to be hard.
Ah, the Mohegans are descendants of the Irish... ;-)Quote: Face"The Little People", mythological characters of the woods who were either mischievous or helpful, depending on whether you gave them offerings or not.
